David discusses Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece ‘A Room of One’s Own’ (1929), and how an essay on the conditions for women writing fiction ends up being about so much else besides.

Streptomycetes are soil bacteria that could easily be mistaken for fungi, their cells snaking through the earth in ...

In Ruth, Kate Riley layers two views of the church: on the one hand, a hidden but unquestionable authority, ‘like ...

The last Habsburg prime minister, Heinrich Lammasch, appointed on 27 October 1918 by Emperor Charles I, served for sixteen days. He was an Austrian jurist and long-term advocate of a league of nations ...

Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status ...

Slavery was accepted across most of the early modern world. No one wanted to be a slave, except when the alternative ...

Our Mutual Friend was Dickens’s last completed novel, published in serial form in 1864-65. The story begins with a body being dredged from the ooze and slime of the Thames, then opens out to follow a ...

The tables below should help give an indication of when your print issue will arrive. Arrival dates and issue schedules differ slightly between regions, but if you have any concerns about your ...

Spain’s provincial authorities were usually compliant, González said, in part because the exhumations don’t cost them any ...

As well as raw talent and incredible athleticism, professional tennis ‘requires extraordinary psychological capacities’, Edmund Gordon wrote recently in the LRB: ‘obsessive focus, epic self-belief’.

Not for the first time, theorists of politics are turning to the unconscious and its strange workings – repression and fantasy, libido and death drive, disavowal and displacement – to understand the ...